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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Bellflower, Calif. yesterday celebrated the grand opening of “Fronk’s,” a new restaurant built on a former gas station with help from $65,000 in funds from EPA’s Brownfields and Underground Storage Tank (UST) Programs. Fronk’s is located on the corner of Bellflower Blvd, and Walnut Ave. in Downtown Bellflower ...

Today in Lansing, Michigan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced more than $76 million in new investments across the country that will redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and help create jobs while protecting public health. EPA’s brownfields grants are used to assess and clean up abandoned industrial and commercial properties like ...

Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced approximately $13.2 million in supplemental funding to help transform communities by cleaning up contaminated Brownfields properties. Supplemental funding of the Revolving Loan Funding (RLF) will be given to 31 successful RLF grantees helping 44 communities carry out cleanup and redevelopment projects. These projects will help ...

“Through EPA’s Superfund Redevelopment Initiative, our cleanups have helped communities across the country return over 850 of the nation's worst hazardous waste sites to safe and productive uses,” said Mathy Stanislaus, EPA’s assistant administrator of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. “There is no stronger testament to the power of redevelopment at a ...

West Virginia inspectors visited the site of last week's chemical spill in 2010 when a nearby resident complained about a strong odor of licorice, the same smell that led officials to the spill Jan. 9, according to documents released Thursday. The company that stores the chemical that leaked into the Elk River and contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people was not cited after the 2010 visit, ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing nearly $3.8 million to Atlantic City, Camden, Jersey City, Maurice River Township, Newark and Trenton, New Jersey to help those communities clean up abandoned and contaminated sites. The funding was awarded through EPA’s Brownfields Program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop and reuse contaminated properties. ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $1,465,000 to Nassau and Niagara counties and the city of Ogdensburg to clean up abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding is being awarded under the EPA’s brownfields program, which helps communities assess, clean up, redevelop and reuse properties at which moderate contamination threatens environmental quality and ...

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the City of Austin for receiving $400,000 in grants to assess up to 20 blighted properties and fuel redevelopment and revitalization. These properties, called brownfield sites, are abandoned or under-utilized properties where reusing the land potentially has been complicated by previous use of hazardous chemicals, pollutants or ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the City of Green River will receive a $200K EPA Brownfields grant to clean up and redevelop the Green River Union Pacific Depot at 200 East Railroad Avenue. The City will use the EPA Brownfields funds to clean up known contamination at the depot site, which was built in 1910. The currently unoccupied building was used for ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected the Alamosa County Economic Development Corporation as the recipient of a $200,000 Brownfields cleanup grant which will be used to remove contamination at the former Pink Elephant property located at 523, 525, 527, and 529 Sixth Street, and 520 and 524 State Avenue in the City of Alamosa. Today’s announcement is part of $62.5 million in ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today awarded $4.35 million in Brownfields grants to five organizations throughout Montana. These resources will be used by communities and nonprofit organizations to advance locally defined plans for property assessment, cleanup and redevelopment projects. Today’s awards in Montana are among 214 Brownfields grants totaling $76M that EPA is providing ...

Dubuque, Iowa, and Pittsburg, Kan., have been chosen to receive funding from EPA’s Brownfields Grant Program to conduct area-wide planning in support of community redevelopment efforts aimed at the revitalization of properties that may be contaminated by hazardous substances or pollutants, EPA officials announced today. The two grants in EPA Region 7 – $200,000 to Dubuque, and ...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Susan Hedman today joined Mayor Jim Schmitt at the former Tillman Nursery site to announce the award of brownfield grants totaling $600,000 to the City of Green Bay, Wisconsin, to assess and clean up contaminated sites. "These EPA brownfield grants will be used by the City of Green Bay to assess and clean up contaminated properties," ...

On Wednesday, U.S. EPA will remove three 4,000-5,000 gallon underground tanks which held gasoline or diesel fuel and one 280 gallon waste-oil underground tank from a former gas station in Fresno, Calif. EPA contractors will also take water and soil samples to evaluate whether the storage tanks have leaked. If the tanks leaked, EPA and the state and regional water boards will assess the level of ...

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced approximately $3.8 million in new pilot grants to nine recipients across the country for cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties. One of the grants will go to the City of Mt. Shasta, Calif., for a brownfields multi-purpose pilot grant. Petroleum grant funds will be used to assess and clean up the Roseburg Commerce Park ...

The Henry Ford Health Systems and the Detroit Pistons broke ground on what is to be the Henry Ford-Detroit Pistons Performance Center. The ceremony took place on Oct. 23 and kicks off the development of a 100,000 square-foot facility that will serve as the Detroit Piston’s practice facility and corporate headquarters, and is slated for completion in June 2019. This joint venture ...

At a ceremony at the Celtic Cowboy restaurant in downtown Great Falls, Mont., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional administrator Shaun McGrath today presented the Great Falls Development Authority and Sweetgrass Development $400K each in Brownfields grant funds. The $800K in EPA grant resources will be used by both organizations to expand local efforts to assess, clean up and ...

Downtown businesses and restaurants reopened Tuesday following last week's chemical spill, but many people waited yet another day for officials to tell them their tap water was safe. So far, about 39 percent of West Virginia American Water's customers have been allowed to use their water again after a chemical spilled into the Elk River on Thursday, state officials said. More than ...

The International Symposium on Bioremediation and Sustainable Environmental Technologies incorporates topics beyond those addressed by its predecessor, the In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation Symposium. Bioremediation and related technologies continue as core areas, but the program also encompasses green and sustainable remediation, sustainable site management strategies, emerging contaminants, ...

At least 100,000 customers in nine West Virginia counties were told not to drink, bathe, cook or wash clothes using their tap water because of a chemical spill into the Elk River in Charleston, with Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declaring a state of emergency Thursday for all those areas. The chemical, a foaming agent used in the coal preparation ...

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